Afraid of ISIS?

[Jack Rabbit]

66. My main fear and loathing of ISIS comes as a citizen of the world

I don't know about anybody else here, but whenever a American journalist or an Iraqi Shiite or an Iraqi Christian or a Kurd is tortured and murdered, the bell tolls for me, too. When it tolls for children in Gaza or black American teenagers in Sanford, Florida or Furguson, Missouri, it tolls for all humanists.

Fuck the crooked governments in Iraq and Syria; for that matter, fuck the crooked government in the US whose main raison d'etre nowadays is figuring out new and more clever ways to transfer money from taxpayers to arms manufacturers and defense contractors, not to mention crooked bankers and industrial polluters.

The principle problem with Will's OP is simply that ISIS is not Saddam. Saddam was a bloody tyrant with brains, as compared to Osama, a bloody tyrant with money. Caliph al-Baghdadi is just a bloody tyrant. Yes, he would try to strike in the US, just as Osama did. He is, after all, trying to coax the US into war that American citizens couldn't stop fast enough. Unfortunately, he's doing a good job of accomplishing that mission and doesn't really need any of the unwitting assistance he gets from Senators McCain or Graham or his fellow right wing morons on American hate radio.

The problem is whether or not "our" government, which really isn't ours any more, is going to respond to ISIS more intelligently than a couple of other bloody tyrants, the Frat Boy and the Big Dick, responded to Osama and the September 11 attacks.